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The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels is philosophical work that proposes a societal shift in which the proletariat rises above the shackles of the bourgeoisie and creates a world of economic and social equality.  Written during the Industrial Revolution, this text spoke to the growing urban populations that experienced a growing disparity between work and wages earned.  As the Industrial Revolution transformed both the countryside and the urban centers, mass migrations into the factory systems for work create a stark separation among the already diverging economic classes.  Speaking to the marginalized working class, Marx and Engels created a unifying ideology for the disenfranchised workers to rally around and champion their own needs in the growing urban centers.  The ideology presented by the authors created an identity for the working class, one that stressed the importance of the laborer in the industrialized world.  John Kane believes that the Manifesto is a work that solves the growing disparity between the classes by providing a solution that benefits the masses.  However, this ideology is targeting a specific class of people, the proletariat, and implores them to initiate a bloody revolution in the name of equality.  The contents of the Manifesto endears the proletariat  to force a confrontation with the societal plagues that seek to oppress them.  Though this work can be seen as a call to arms, it is better used as a framework for a growing working class to understand the inherent powers they hold over the middle and upper classes.  It is a work that understands the trials and labors of the laymen, propelling them into a unity to protect themselves from the interests of the bourgeoisie to create a society that protects the workers from the employers.